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Windrush Exhibition Delayed

This year sees the 72nd anniversary of the SS Empire Windrush bringing in the first organised group of West Indian workers to the UK.  They were invited here to reduce the staffing shortage at London Transport and entered England via Tilbury Bridge.

The bridge is intact, but was no longer in use, so artist Everton Wright, known as EVEWRIGHT has used it for an exhibition.  It is called The Tilbury Bridge Walkway of Memories and it has images installed on over 500 panes of glass representing the lives of Windrush pioneers and descendants.  The photograph above shows EVEWRIGHT at the exhibition site at Tilbury Cruise Terminal, Essex.  There’s more on https://www.windrushday.org.uk/news/tilbury-bridge-walkway-of-memories-a-tribute-to-the-windrush-generation/

Unfortunately coronavirus restrictions have delayed the physical opening indefinitely.  It is, however, hoped that it will have an online presence soon.  There’s more about the delay on https://thurrock.nub.news/n/tilbury39s-new-art-installation-is-delayed-by-covid39s-rule-of-six

(04/10/2020)

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Everton Wright's The Walking Drawings Premiere in Opa Locka

Everton Wright’s The Walking Drawings Premiere in Opa Locka

Celebrated Black British Artist, Everton Wright will launch the META series for the 2015 Art of Transformation season with the Opa-Locka Community Development Corporation on Sunday, February 22,2015 at the Art and Recreation Center (ARC) from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm at  651 Ali Baba Ave.  The  series includes several cultural arts events beginning in Spring, 2015 and culminating at Opa-Locka’s eagerly…

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Everton Wright - Walking Drawings: Coloured People, 2012

Artist’s statement: "... I wanted to take my studio practice into a public space and onto a larger canvas and so Walking Drawings was born. It also meant I could connect and work more interactively with people. Walking Drawings experiments with a new way of drawing, swapping traditional media such as paint, charcoal and paper with landscapes, digital video pixels and people.” 

“The Walking Drawings allowed those who took part to express their individual stories within the work, which in itself was both surprising and moving to see. The drawings are a conduit for bigger happenings which cannot be controlled or repeated but which are inherently beautiful.”

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Everton Wright